Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2001-04-23
Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 89, No. 12, pp. 7943-7953(2001)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
45 pre-print style double-spaced pages including 8 figures, accepted for Journal of Applied Physics
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1368389
Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) may offer a viable alternative of traditional transistor-based technology at the nanoscale. When modeling a QCA circuit, the number of degrees of freedom necessary to describe the quantum mechanical state increases exponentially making modeling even modest size cell arrays difficult. The intercellular Hartree approximation largely reduces the number of state variables and still gives good results especially when the system remains near ground state. This suggests that large part of the correlation degrees of freedom are not essential from the point of view of the dynamics. In certain cases, however, such as for example the majority gate with unequal input legs, the Hartree approximation gives qualitatively wrong results. An intermediate model is constructed between the Hartree approximation and the exact model, based on the coherence vector formalism. By including correlation effects to a desired degree, it improves the results of the Hartree method and gives the approximate dynamics of the correlation terms. It also models the majority gate correctly. Beside QCA cell arrays, our findings are valid for Ising spin chains in transverse magnetic field, and can be straightforwardly generalized for coupled two-level systems with a more complicated Hamiltonian.
Lent Craig S.
Tóth Géza
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